English Medieval CastlesSimmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1961 - 208 pages |
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Reginald Allen Brown. 18 SCALE OF 10 50 10 20 30 40 FEET FORE- BUILDING ERNEST AR . RAMBUA H.M. Stationery Office ) FORE BULDING BASEMENT PLAN SCALE OF FEET 12TH CENTURY MODERN. Castle Hedingham , Essex , section through keep . Cf. Fig ...
Reginald Allen Brown. 18 SCALE OF 10 50 10 20 30 40 FEET FORE- BUILDING ERNEST AR . RAMBUA H.M. Stationery Office ) FORE BULDING BASEMENT PLAN SCALE OF FEET 12TH CENTURY MODERN. Castle Hedingham , Essex , section through keep . Cf. Fig ...
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... feet wide ; at Newcastle they measure fourteen feet at first - floor level ; at Rochester they are twelve feet at the base and ten at the top . A slight reduction of their thickness at the upper and safer levels was usually effected by ...
... feet wide ; at Newcastle they measure fourteen feet at first - floor level ; at Rochester they are twelve feet at the base and ten at the top . A slight reduction of their thickness at the upper and safer levels was usually effected by ...
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... feet by ninety - six feet at the base , and is some eighty feet high . The more modest but very fine keep at Bamburgh , roughly contemporary in date , measures sixty - nine feet by sixty - one in area but is only fifty - five feet high ...
... feet by ninety - six feet at the base , and is some eighty feet high . The more modest but very fine keep at Bamburgh , roughly contemporary in date , measures sixty - nine feet by sixty - one in area but is only fifty - five feet high ...
Contents
Two Early Norman Castles | 23 |
THREE Early Stone Castles | 35 |
FOUR The Perfected Castle | 60 |
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